When I smuggle, I make sure to add catnip to my bags. Most people don’t know that the TSA employs cats. They have a pride of Drug/Explosive/Bio-weapons Ignoring Cats. Since cats plan for our eventual downfall, they will ignore direct threats to people. If a cat hits on your bag, they let it through, because the one that it ignores contains the danger.

I can’t decide whether this would give a TSA worker a refreshing laugh, or would (and should) make them detain you longer for joking about something that isn’t funny and making the lines longer. Then, of course, we’d have rants on here about how the TSA can’t take a joke and they’re all the trash can lickers of society.

Well Actually….
The TSA doesn’t care. US Customs, and law enforcement agencies care.

In past instances when TSA agents have taken it upon themselves to be law enforcement detectives, or pretend to be US Customs, the TSA had issued press releases that the agent is being “retrained”.

Remember that case last year when the TSA decided that a Steve Bierfeldt, flying domestic from St. Louis to Washington DC, with $4700 in cash on him, was detained for questioning? TSA agents demand to know where they money came from and where it was going. The passenger worked for a US Congressman, and he recorded the interrogation on his iPhone. The TSA way out of bounds in that case, and the TSA director had to issue an apology and a press release to clarify what the TSA can and can not do.

In other words, it is not the TSA’s job to enforce drug laws, money laundering laws, kidnapping laws, import/export restrictions, etc. Their job, and their ONLY job, is to assure that air travel is safe. They do this primarily by preventing weapons and potential weapons off planes, and to a lesser extent, dangerous people.

You should be able to bring a suitcase full of narcotics on board, and it is NOT the TSA’s job to stop you or even report you. As long as you are not a danger to the aircraft or passengers, they have no right to do a damn thing.

TSA screeners have no more law enforcement powers than a mall cop. At least they are not supposed to. However, some think that they are cops. Those are the dangerous ones.

Frankly, the TSA agents I’ve run into are dumb as bricks and wouldn’t even pass the entrance exam for police training school. I get the feeling most never even got a GED. Do you really want this dimwits acting as police officers? Hell no.

While I get (and agree with!) that the TSA shouldn’t enforce any laws, it seems counter-productive that they shouldn’t be obligated to report laws that are broken to other agencies, if only to reduce the costs of redundant investigators and because they’re in a position to observe potential infractions. I view this as similar to mandated-reporting laws that most doctors/teachers/child-care workers are subjected to, in terms of reporting any and all suspected child abuse.